John McCain's daughter defends Bristol Palin on blog

[The Straight Story]

John McCain's daughter defends Bristol Palin on blog

Meghan McCain, the daughter of the Republican presidential candidate John, has defended Bristol Palin, the pregnant daughter of his running mate.


In a post on her blog, www.McCainBlogette.com, Miss McCain, 24, said she felt kinship with Miss Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of vice-Presidential candidate Sarah, adding: "It's a rough go being the son or daughter of a politician."

"I have not known Bristol Palin very long, but there is a certain kinship I feel to her as I do other political daughters, such as Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush and Mary Cheney," she wrote, in a post titled "Daughters".

"You can't fully understand it unless you have lived it. So, I just wanted to let it be known that I support Bristol and the entire Palin family."

Miss McCain goes on to liken Miss Palin's situation to a moment that "single-handedly changed my life" - when, during the 2000 presidential campaign, a reporter asked her father whether he would tell Meghan, who was then 14, that she could not have an abortion if she became pregnant.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2672841/John-McCains-daughter-defends-Bristol-Palin-on-blog.html

[Demeter]

1. As IF!

Nobody cares, Meghan. And nobody cares about Bristol, either. Evidently, not even her parents, who stuck her with a name that any self-respecting girl would go out and change--either by insisting on a nickname, or by filing legal papers.

[cobalt1999]

2. All I know is I'd hate to be judged based on my parent's political viewpoints.

Because my Dad was a very conservative republican.

[Ashy Larry]

4. But if he ran for president, and you were 24, would you join his campaign

on a full-time basis?

Bristol is a different case because she is under 18.

[L. Coyote]

3. WHY this distraction from McCain? "It's the corruption stupid!"

Abramoff, McCain, Palin, Corruption & the GOP...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/1829/47514


This is important. In September 2006 it became clear that the November Election would turn on the issue of corruption. All signs point to the same thing happening this year.

I’ll try and put this in the simple language of politics:

It’s The Corruption, Stupid